Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks produces high-capacity network switches, routers, and other award-winning hardware products for the campus, LAN, MAN, and ISP environments. Xtelesis uses Foundry's world-class products to create a broadband IP infrastructure that lays the foundation for next-generation applications — helping you to gain competitive advantage and building a network that scales with your business.

Layer 3 Backbone Switches
Foundry's chassis-based BigIron family of Layer 3 Backbone Switches for the campus, MAN, and LAN environments delivers up to 1.2 terabits per second of backplane switching capacity, dramatically reducing performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP routing. With this capacity, the premium BigIron MG8 scales to support 96 separate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single 7-foot rack. The entire BigIron family scales to easily handle several hundred non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet ports at a peak performance of up to 480,000,000 packets per second — delivering more than 100 times the performance of new competitive switches and routers at a much lower price.

Layer 2/3 Enterprise Core/Edge and Service Provider Edge Switches
Foundry's complete line of award-winning Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches includes the FastIron and EdgeIron product families. These products deliver a new level of performance and functionality for enterprise and service provider networks. Based on Foundry's high performance architectures, these products deliver industry-leading performance, price/performance and high-density 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet connectivity for enterprise backbones, high-density wiring closet environments, and service provider edge applications.

Metro Routers
The chassis-based NetIron product family provides unparalleled, wire-speed IP routing performance and switching capacity to meet the expanding requirements of Metro and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). NetIron Metro routers include the new 40 Gigabit-ready NetIron 40G platform that uses Foundry's new fourth generation ASICs to offer 4 Terabits of switching capacity and 1.5 billion packets per second of routing performance per rack — nearly twice the capability of newly announced competitive platforms at an industry-leading price per 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) port. NetIron Metro Routers are designed to be NEBS Level 3 compliant. With feature-rich IronWare that's used by more than 5,800 customers around the world, NetIron Metro Routers offer a complete set of IP routing protocols — including BGP4, OSPF, and IS-IS — as part of the IronWare operating system.

Web Switches
The ServerIron family of Internet traffic and content management switches provides high-performance server load balancing, URL, cookie, and SSL Session IDÐbased switching, global server load balancing, firewall load balancing, and transparent cache switching.

Network Management
Foundry IronView is a robust network management platform with a rich set of applications targeted for operation management of Foundry devices.

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